jesuitesses.
THese began at Luke or Liege about thirty years since. Mistris Mary Ward, and Mistris Twitty being the first beginners of them. They are not confi∣ned, as other Nunns to a Cl••yster, but have liberty to go abroad where they please to convert people to the Catholick Faith. They weare a Huke like other women, and differ but little in their habit from common persons. The afore∣said two Virgins, or rather Viragins travelled to Rome with three the most beau∣tifull of their society, endevouring to procure from his Holiness an establishment of their order, but no Confirmation, onely a Toleration would be granted thereof. Since I have read, that Anno 1629, Mistris Mary Ward went to Vienna, where she prevailed so farre with the Emperesse, that she procured a Monastery to be erected for those of her Order, as formerly they had two Houses at Liege. Since I have heard nothing of them, which rendreth it suspitious that their Order is sup∣pressed, because otherwise such turbulent spirits would be known by their own violence, it being all one with a storm not to be and not to bluster: For, although this may seem the speediest way to make their Order to propagate when Iesuita shall become hic & haec of the common gender, yet conscientious Catholicks con∣ceived these Lady Errants so much to deviate from feminine (not to say Virgin) modesty, (what is but going in Men being accounted gadding in Maids) that they zealously decried their practice, probably to the present blasting thereof.